“You got a light?”

That’s what Jack Russell, frontman for the graying hair band Great White, asked me on that ghastly morning in Warwick, R.I., a dozen years ago.

The charred ruins of The Station nightclub were still smoldering across the street. Firefighters worked to gather the remains of 100 victims who came to see Russell jump and scream … and wound up dying horrible deaths.

You could almost smell the carnage and all Jack Russell, the star of the show, wanted from me at that moment was to light the cigarette he clutched in his shivering hand.

“Don’t smoke,” I told him.

Russell, who was 42 at the time, but looked like a 72-year-old version of Captain Jack Sparrow, was a mess, but he was alive. He managed to scamper out the back door behind the stage of The Station nightclub when his pyrotechnic display turned the packed roadhouse into a version of hell.

Jack Russell never apologized for the disaster. He claims his lawyer at the time said an apology could be seen as guilt. He never went to jail, either.

Now, apparently, Russell has hooked up with a documentary film producer. It seems he wants to package his belated apology to the victims of The Station fire into a vanity film.

Gina Russo will have none of it.

She lost her fiance, Fred Crisostomi, in the fire and spent more than 11 weeks in the hospital, enduring countless surgeries for scars that will never truly heal.

“I just wish Jack Russell had the sense enough and the decency enough to respect those we loved and lost and just stop,” Gina told me yesterday. “Why doesn’t he just stop?

“He popped up two years ago, during the 10th anniversary of the fire. He wanted to do a concert. And those of us working with the Station Fire Memorial told him no.” Russo said that Russell’s appearance at such an event would only have caused more pain. “We wanted absolutely nothing to do with him,” she said.

And that feeling has not changed. If anything, the contempt felt by the community of Station survivors has only increased, Russo explained.

“Now, he shows up again. And again, Jack Russell is looking for redemption. That’s all this film, or whatever it is, is about. He wants redemption. He wants us to forgive him. And I’m telling you it will never happen,” Gina said.

“A producer called me about this so-called film and I told him forget about it. Again, we don’t want anything to do with Jack Russell. He totally disrespected us in the days and weeks after the fire. He can’t come crawling back now, looking for redemption that he’s never going to get.” Jack Russell did not suffer a burn in The Station conflagration. And yet he appears to be covered with far more scars than Gina Russo.

“My life is good,” Gina said. “I don’t know what Jack Russell’s life is like. But mine is good.”

And she says Jack Russell can’t come back to Warwick now looking to soothe his own wounds and promote himself with a film masquerading as an apology.

“It’s way too late for that,” Gina said.